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Who is on the ballot in 99747?

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5 races and 3 ballot questions in your ZIP preview.

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U.S. House, Alaska District AL
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Nick Begich portrait
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Nick Begich
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Nick Begich holds a business degree from Baylor University and an MBA from Indiana University and worked for Ford Motor Company in technology, finance and product development before returning to Alaska to start businesses and mentor entrepreneurs, per the campaign site. He was elected to the U.S. House in 2024, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Wants to lower costs by addressing energy, transportation, infrastructure, taxes and federal regulation
  • Supports reopening resource development in Alaska and increasing the state's share of federal resource revenues
  • Backs infrastructure investment to connect communities and lower the cost of goods
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
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Eric Hafner
DEM
Biography
Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat, lists criminal justice studies at Denver College and coursework at City College of San Francisco, per his statement in the Alaska Division of Elections' 2026 Official Election Pamphlet. The statement also describes campaign and organizing work with the Denver teachers' union, drug-policy reform groups and a criminal defense team in Hawaii. No campaign website was found as of October 6, 2026.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Access to public and higher education for all, per his Official Election Pamphlet statement
  • Protecting Alaska's environment and public lands such as ANWR from short-term exploitation, per his Official Election Pamphlet statement
  • Avoiding war and reducing political polarization, per his Official Election Pamphlet statement
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Bill Hill
Nonpartisan
Biography
Bill Hill is a Dena'ina Athabascan from Bristol Bay who has worked as a commercial fisherman since age 12 and spent more than 25 years as a teacher, principal and superintendent, earning Superintendent of the Year in 2023, per the campaign site. He has also worked in union construction and owned a small business, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Bring down everyday costs at the grocery store and the gas pump
  • Protect Alaska's fisheries and ways of life
  • Make billionaires and big corporations pay their share
James C. "Jim" McDermott portrait
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James C. "Jim" McDermott
Libertarian
Biography
McDermott is a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant (22.5 years of active duty) who has lived in Alaska for more than 35 years and calls Fairbanks home, per the campaign site. McDermott has taught business courses at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for more than eight years and has run small business development programs in the Fairbanks area, per the campaign site. McDermott is the Libertarian candidate and has run for Alaska's U.S. House seat in previous cycles, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Term limits and accountability
  • Fiscal accountability and a lower national debt
  • Civil liberties and due process
About this race
Alaska uses an open top-four primary: every candidate appeared on the August 18, 2026 primary ballot open to all voters, and the four highest vote-getters advanced to the November 3 ranked-choice general election. Party labels reflect each candidate's voter registration, not a party nomination. Nick Begich, Eric Hafner, Bill Hill and Jim McDermott are the four certified for the November ballot, per the Division of Elections' certified general-election candidate list.
U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
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Gerald L. Heikes
REP
Biography
Gerald L. Heikes is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Alaska on the November 3, 2026 ranked-choice general election ballot, per the Division of Elections' certified general-election candidate list. No campaign website is listed in Gerald L. Heikes's FEC committee filing, and none was found as of October 15, 2026.
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. portrait
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Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
REP
Biography
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a Petersburg Republican, has built a life in Petersburg over nearly 50 years, per the campaign site. He earned a degree in forestry technology and worked for the U.S. Forest Service in surveying, timber management and timber sale administration, then earned a degree in education and became an elementary school teacher, per the campaign site. He taught in Petersburg schools for more than 20 years and grew up in Evergreen Park, Illinois, per his official candidate statement filed with the Alaska Division of Elections. He shares a name with the state's sitting U.S. senator, Dan S. Sullivan; the Division of Elections' certified list distinguishes the two by full middle name and the 'Jr.' suffix.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Elections decided by voters, with equal ballot access for qualified candidates, per official candidate statement filed with the Alaska Division of Elections
Dan Sullivan portrait
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Dan Sullivan
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Dan Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska's eighth U.S. senator on January 6, 2015, and was reelected in November 2020, per the campaign site. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer for over 30 years, retiring in early 2024 as a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, per the campaign site. He previously served as assistant secretary of state for economic, energy and business affairs, as a National Security Council director, and as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, per the campaign site. The campaign site has no issues page as of October 23, 2026; the priorities above are the ones it names, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Passing the biggest tax cut in American history
  • Unleashing Alaska's energy potential
  • Historic investments in our military and national defense
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Mary Peltola
DEM
Biography
Mary Peltola grew up salmon fishing on the Kuskokwim River and raised seven children, per the campaign site. She served as Alaska's U.S. representative from 2022 to 2025, per the U.S. House member roster (congress-legislators dataset). The campaign site says she is running for the Senate because she has seen firsthand how government is failing Alaskans.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Affordability
  • Fixing the rigged system
  • Fighting for Alaska fisheries
Governor
4 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Dave Bronson
REP
Biography
Dave Bronson is a Republican candidate for Alaska governor and former mayor of Anchorage. His campaign emphasizes public safety, homelessness and urban management, energy, resource development, and a conservative executive approach shaped by his city-hall experience. He is running with Josh Church as his candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Alaska Division of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthen public safety and city-state coordination
  • Develop energy and natural resources
  • Address homelessness, infrastructure, and cost of living
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Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
DEM
Biography
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is a Democratic candidate for Alaska governor and former state representative from Sitka. His public record includes work on Alaska Native languages, local problem-solving, fiscal policy, rural communities, and practical cross-partisan governing. He is running with Zac Johnson as his candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Alaska Division of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Use practical, community-led problem-solving
  • Support rural Alaska and local services
  • Build a stronger economy and more responsive government
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Treg Taylor
REP
Biography
Treg Taylor is a Republican candidate for Alaska governor and former Alaska attorney general. His campaign emphasizes law enforcement, resource development, families, energy, and conservative leadership shaped by legal and executive-branch experience. He is running with Candi English as his candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Alaska Division of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthen public safety and legal accountability
  • Support energy and resource development
  • Bring executive-branch legal experience to state leadership
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Bernadette Wilson
REP
Biography
Bernadette Wilson is a Republican candidate for Alaska governor, business owner, and conservative activist. Her campaign emphasizes energy, economic opportunity, public safety, parental rights, and a more confrontational approach to state and federal policy. She is running with Michael K. Shower as her candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Alaska Division of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Expand energy and economic opportunity
Alaska Judicial Retention
1 candidate
Statewide ▾
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Jude Pate
Nonpartisan INCUMBENT
Biography
Justice Pate served as a Superior Court judge in Sitka from 2018 to 2023, and before that as an assistant public defender for the State of Alaska (2006-2018), in private law practice (1999-2006), and as counsel for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (1994-1999); he holds a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas, per the court's official biography.
About this race
Retention vote: each judge appears alone with a yes-or-no question on keeping the seat. 20 more district or county retention judges depend on your address: see /judges/alaska.

Countywide races in North Slope Borough

ZIP 99747 sits in North Slope Borough, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All North Slope Borough races (1).

Alaska House District 40
2 candidates
County ▾
SC
Saima Chase
DEM
Biography
Saima Chase, a registered Democrat from Kotzebue, works as a tribal emergency manager and currently serves as mayor of the City of Kotzebue, per the statement filed for the Alaska Division of Elections' 2026 Official Election Pamphlet. She previously served as fire chief and as a search and rescue coordinator for the Northwest Arctic Borough, per the same statement. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Support responsible development with tribal and village consultation, per the statement filed for the Alaska Division of Elections' 2026 Official Election Pamphlet
  • Improve public safety, fire response and search and rescue in small villages, per the statement filed for the Alaska Division of Elections' 2026 Official Election Pamphlet
  • Address school funding shortfalls affecting classrooms, per the statement filed for the Alaska Division of Elections' 2026 Official Election Pamphlet
Robyn Niayuq Burke Frier portrait
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Robyn Niayuq Burke Frier
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Frier is from Utqiagvik and comes from the Akpik and Piquk families, per the campaign site. She served four years on the North Slope Borough School District Board of Education, including two years as board president, and has served on the Association of Alaska School Boards, Voice of the Arctic Inupiaq and Ilisagvik College boards, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Resource development balanced with respect for the knowledge and culture of North Slope residents
  • A statutory increase to the base student allocation to stabilize school funding
  • State funding to match federal dollars for water, sewer, school and airport infrastructure
About this race
Saima Chase (Democratic), Robyn Niayuq Burke Frier (Democratic) are on the November 3 ballot for Alaska House District 40; Robyn Niayuq Burke Frier is the sitting member, per the Legislature's official member table (akleg.gov). Not on the November ballot: Rep. Burke, the sitting member for the district per the same table. The field advanced from the August 18, 2026 top-four open primary; the general election uses ranked-choice voting, and the party shown is each candidate's registration as printed by the Division of Elections. Every address in North Slope Borough is in this district, per the certified district list.

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